Individually, the words mini, no bake, goat cheese, and cheesecake all appeal to me. Plus cherries? Put those all together and I'm a goner. I made little individual goat cheese cheesecakes with a chocolate crust,...

April 7, 2014

Soon Spoon Pop-Up Dinner

Recently I had the pleasure of attending a pop-up dinner hosted by Soon Spoon, a newly-launched start-up that "aggregates last minute reservations for Boston’s most booked restaurants." What that means is that you can...

Lumpia is Filipino spring rolls, typically filled with pork and vegetables, then deep fried. But not this one! I made Lumpiang Gulay (Vegetarian Lumpia), filled with goodies like sweet potato, tofu, green beans, carrots,...

March 31, 2014

Filipino Pork Belly Adobo

My family's go-to dish, like so many other Filipinos living abroad, is adobo. It does not matter that the dish takes hours to cook and the smell of it stays in the apartment for...

March 27, 2014

Alfajores

Alfajor coookies, or alfajores, are buttery cookie sandwiches filled with dulce de leche and covered in powdered sugar. The cookies are like shortbread, sturdy and crumbly at the same time, with the slightest hint...

There I was, inhaling the scent of chocolate in the air, clutching my camera, staring at Lucie. Lucie is an enrobing machine. As in, she enrobes ganache (or any other bonbon fillings) in melted dark...

The Dungeness Crab Sandwich at Beecher's Seattle is what sandwich dreams are made of. It's a grilled cheese sandwich with tender Dungeness crab meat and a little bit of remoulade sauce. The crispy exteriors...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The weekend parades may be over but the revelries continue today and tonight. If you’re so inclined to celebrate with something with alcohol, forget the green beer and instead consider...

This is the latest installment of my Good Eats Series, where I share some some of the great foods I’ve enjoyed but were previously undocumented. This latest one includes one of the city's newest...

Welcome to the newly redesigned Confessions of a Chocoholic! (If you're reading this via an RSS feed or your email, I hope you'll click over and check it out!) Today I'm very happy to publish the...